Charter school gets green light to recruit on OUSD campuses

The school has been able to survive on so few students because
it was paying MiraCosta College no more than $1,500 a year to house
the program on the college's Community Learning Center campus.

However, last fall the college terminated its agreement with the
charter because the school failed to bring in enough students to
qualify for state grants to construct a new building on the college
campus. It gave the charter until June 30 to vacate.

Because the school will need to lease a building to hold classes
next year, it will need more students to generate enough state
funding to pay the bills. Most of the school's current $500,000
budget goes to salaries and materials.

Charter officials, who have already scouted a location for next
year, said the lease could cost up to $200,000 —— money that will
need to come from a higher student enrollment.